Right, this one is a quickie, essentially drawn to take away boredom while I move onto my next massively gigantic work. I just threw some filters on and put some colors and did this. Scansoriopteryx (climbing wing), as everyone knows, is a small dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou Beds (however you spell that name) from 160 million years ago. This insectivore, probably over 30 centimeters, maybe a little bit more.

I still wonder if gold was the way to go with this dino's feathers. Background was blurred to put the Scansoriopteryx into focus properly. Not my best dinosaur pic by far...

EDIT: Edited description as per a suggestion by , a thought that seriously, well, got me thinking for a while

EDIT: Once again reworking the wing feathers. Covered the second finger too, but is it too much with the primary feathers?

There's nothing in the literature or skeletal reconstructions or fossils of this animal that will tell you which finger to attach the primaries to in this particular animal. A lot of artists seem to choose the third finger just because it's the longest, so it makes logical sense to them. However, if you believe it used the elongated third finger for probing, wouldn't feathers obstruct that? The third finger is one of the most mobile in maniraptorans (see [link] for an interesting tidbit), so it makes the most sense to me to leave it unfeathered in the case of Scansoriopteryx, and it makes the most sense phylogenetically too. If you think it didn't use the elongated second digit for anything that would require mobility, it makes a little more sense.

Well then...the probing idea was just a guess based on what some people seem to think. I mean, such an elongated digit should have some sort of purpose right? should probably edit my description then, I think it's easiest

No plausible Supporters as far as I can recommand.The Primaries on Digit III Meme may came from the fossil, where it LOOKS LIKE the (highly likely detached) Feathers were actually attached to Digit III instead of commonly (or in other words: all Theropoda with Wings) Digit II.Also there is nothing to support the Tertiares you put on this little critter. Even many modern Birds lack them and probably no Mesozoic Theropoda had them.